| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: takes," said Gaudron; "and I mentioned the name to the secretary of
his Eminence,--for we live at a crisis when the Church and Throne must
keep themselves informed as to who are their friends and who their
enemies."
"For the last five days I have been trying to find the right thing to
say to his Excellency's wife," said Saillard.
"All Paris will read that," cried Baudoyer, whose eyes were still
riveted on the paper.
"Your eulogy costs us four thousand eight hundred francs, son-in-law!"
exclaimed Madame Saillard.
"You have adorned the house of God," said the Abbe Gaudron.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: With inwrought pearl and beryl-stone
She came, a bold Sabean girl.
And did she find him grave, or gay?
Perchance his palace breathed that day
With psalters sounding solemnly--
Or cymbals' merrier minstrelsy--
Perchance the wearied monarch heard
Some loose-tongued prophet's meddling word;--
None knows, no one--but Solomon!
She looked--with eyne wherein were blent
All ardors of the Orient;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: while still others have made me tremble and look behind me in
the dark; yet despite the worst of them I believe I can myself
relate the most hideous thing of all -- the shocking, the unnatural,
the unbelievable horror from the shadows.
In 1915 I was a physician
with the rank of First Lieutenant in a Canadian regiment in Flanders,
one of many Americans to precede the government itself into the
gigantic struggle. I had not entered the army on my own initiative,
but rather as a natural result of the enlistment of the man whose
indispensable assistant I was -- the celebrated Boston surgical
specialist, Dr. Herbert West. Dr. West had been avid for a chance
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